Sea gypsies without IDs


  • Nation
  • Friday, 03 May 2019

Giving them an education: Sjn Mohd Amran teaching stateless pupils the basics of 3M in Pulau Berhala, Sandakan. — ZULAZHAR SHEBLEE / THE STAR

Reports by MUGUNTAN VANAR, TARRENCE TAN and KRISTY INUS 

PULAU BERHALA (Sandakan): Across the beach strewn with rotting plastic and decaying wooden planks, lies multiple rows of dilapidated huts tightly built next to each other behind the island’s jetty.

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